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HR documentation: A step-by-step guide

Insperity

It can also land your company in legal trouble. It can also lower morale and cause interpersonal problems within teams when colleagues feel like they’re constantly covering for someone who’s never there. The goal is not to delve into an employee’s personal issues, but to determine what, if anything, may be done to solve the problem.

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micromanaging goodbye emails, overhead lighting wars, and more

Ask a Manager

My employee is feigning ignorance of office policies I have an employee who “forgets” well-established norms and/claim they were not aware of something. Every time I remind them of they policy, they claim they weren’t aware and/or forgot. For example, last week they took an hour plus for one lunch.

Cubicle 43
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boss freaked out when I used bottled water in the coffee maker, manager is buying supplies with her own money, and more

Ask a Manager

I apparently violated an (unknown) office policy, but it was honestly well-intended. I’m not comfortable with her spending her own money, or the small but non-zero risk of her going in to the post office unnecessarily. How would you react to a manager who solves business problems by spending her own money?